noun
- salts of manganic acid containing the manganate ion (MnO4²⁻)
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- Potassium manganate is a dark green crystalline compound.
- Manganates are strong oxidizing agents in alkaline solutions.
- The laboratory prepared several manganates for the experiment.
- Sodium manganate can be produced by fusing manganese dioxide with sodium hydroxide.
- These manganates exhibit distinctive colors in aqueous solution.
- The chemist studied the reduction of manganates to permanganates.